title: [French expatriates in the tropics. One hundred years of health history].
abstract: It is difficult to synthesize, for the 20th century, the evolution of mortality among travellers, since they make up a heterogenous and elusive category. Data for soldiers sent abroad are the most easily available and suggest two rates in the decline of mortality: one before and one after the Pasteurian revolution. There is no direct link between demographic curves and optimistic or pessimistic biological theories which have alternatively sought to interpret the phenomenon of being "transplanted" in the tropics. Today, the debate remains open as to the respective roles of genetic, behavioural, and ecological factors in the adaptation of the individual and the group. Although traumatology comes first among risks associated with voyaging, infectious disease still occupies an important place in how travel is perceived, perhaps because it symbolizes coming into contact with "strangers".
authors.affiliation: CNRS-INSERM U 158, Laboratoire de parasitologie, Hôpital Laënnec, Paris.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Moulin
mesh_terms: D018595:Colonialism / Q000266:history; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000266:history*; D005602:France / Q000208:ethnology; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000266:history; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends; D014195:Travel / Q000266:history*; D014329:Tropical Climate; D014330:Tropical Medicine / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Expatriés français sous les tropiques. Cent ans d'histoire de la santé.